The long-awaited updated guidance on relationships and sex education (RSE) was published last week, the first government update on RSE for almost 20 years.
The new guidance is significant because it comes with legislation that makes relationships education mandatory in all primary schools, and RSE a requirement for secondary schools - a move that will help protect children and guarantee them important information about their bodies and growing up.
The surprise announcement of mandatory health education goes a long way towards providing children and young people with a complete curriculum for health and wellbeing (see below).
The draft guidance lists what children should know by the time they leave primary school and by the time they leave secondary school.
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